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What You Do After Cancer

by Julia Roller · In: Breast Cancer, Gratitude · on Feb 10, 2020

I drive to the medical center trying my best to distract myself with a podcast I’d saved just for the occasion, but once I check in and sit down it’s no longer possible to forget that it’s time for my …

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Category: Breast Cancer, GratitudeTag: after cancer, breast cancer, cancer free, cancer survivor, gratitude, Romans 8:28

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Back to School, Back to Work

by Julia Roller · In: Parenting, The Writing Life, Uncategorized · on Sep 6, 2019

Embracing the Rhythm of the School Year As much as I anticipate and love summer, by the time we get to about mid-August I am looking forward to the start of the school year. I don't exactly throw …

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Category: Parenting, The Writing Life, UncategorizedTag: back to school, parenting, school year, the writing life

Easy and Effective Ways to Encourage Your Young Athlete

by Julia Roller · In: Parenting · on Jun 28, 2019

Spring and summer are all about baseball in my house. Then just when baseball is winding down, soccer starts up in earnest. Between my two sons, it sometimes seems as though most of my time is spent …

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Category: ParentingTag: affirmations, encouragement, youth baseball, youth soccer, youth sports

Find Your Flow

by Julia Roller · In: Parenting, Simplicity · on Jan 16, 2019

  When I speak to groups of moms with young children, I ask them to close their eyes and think of the last time they felt themselves relax into the moment so much that they lost all sense of …

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Category: Parenting, SimplicityTag: Christian parenting, flow, kairos, Mikhail Csikszentmihalyi, simplicity

Mom, I Don’t Pray

by Julia Roller · In: Prayer · on Oct 10, 2018

“I don’t pray,” my ten-year-old son said the other day at the dinner table, and my heart just about stopped. “What?” I said. “What do you mean? Why not? What happened?” My head filled with even more …

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Category: PrayerTag: Christian parenting, Philippians 4:6-7, prayer, praying aloud, praying with children

When You Feel Like You’re Not a Good Enough Mom

by Julia Roller · In: Parenting, Uncategorized · on Jul 27, 2018

I studied all the wrong things in school. Based on my daily life, I would have been much better off had I studied nursing, nutrition, defensive carpool driving, physical therapy, and child psychology. …

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Category: Parenting, Uncategorized

The Spiritual Practice You Didn’t Know You Were Doing

by Julia Roller · In: Parenting, Spiritual Disciplines · on Jan 25, 2018

Several days a week my 2-year-old daughter and I walk several blocks to our church, either for services or Bible study or for her morning preschool. We live so close that I often tell people it's …

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Category: Parenting, Spiritual Disciplines

Cancer-Free: A Resolution of Gratitude

by Julia Roller · In: Breast Cancer, Gratitude · on Jan 4, 2018

On December 28 I went to the cancer center for my yearly mammogram. Because my initial surgery to remove my breast cancer was in December, this anxiety-producing ritual now falls at the end of each …

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Category: Breast Cancer, GratitudeTag: breast cancer, Examen, gratitude, resolutions, spiritual disciplines, spiritual formation

Teaching Kids to Talk (and Listen) to God

by Julia Roller · In: Parenting, Prayer · on Nov 16, 2017

  I once shocked a bunch of kids while giving a children's sermon. I told them it didn't matter if they bowed their heads or even folded their hands when they prayed.  That they certainly …

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Category: Parenting, PrayerTag: Examen, prayer, praying hands, praying with kids

The Secret to Working at Home with Small Children

by Julia Roller · In: Home, Housekeeping, Parenting, The Writing Life · on Oct 2, 2017

I've been working at home for almost 15 years now, both before and after becoming a mom of three. Over the years I've learned many lessons about getting work done at home, in the midst of diapers, …

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Category: Home, Housekeeping, Parenting, The Writing LifeTag: anne lamott, multi-tasking, the writing life, time management, work from home, working moms

Daily Tasks Are Real Life

by Julia Roller · In: Home, Parenting, Prayer · on Feb 16, 2017

My daughter is 15 months old. What that means for my house is that there is no safe place to keep the toilet brush. That as I put the dirty dishes into the dishwasher, she is joyfully unloading them …

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Category: Home, Parenting, PrayerTag: Christian mom, Christian parenting, Kathleen Norris, laundry, prayer

One Easy Way to Simplify Family Life

by Julia Roller · In: Parenting, Simplicity · on Jan 19, 2017

This time of year many of us start to think about simplicity. Practicing Christian simplicity is about doing less or having less in order to focus more on God. I think many of us want to better …

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Category: Parenting, SimplicityTag: baseball, family life, parenting, simplicity, youth sports

Holy Labor

by Julia Roller · In: Book Reviews · on Oct 6, 2016

Childbirth is an exciting and terrifying prospect. For each of my three pregnancies, as my stomach grew larger, so did my anxiety and dread about the birth itself. Just as the marriage is more …

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Category: Book ReviewsTag: Aubry G. Smith, childbirth, holy labor, labor, natural childbirth

The Three Lessons of Losing

by Julia Roller · In: Breast Cancer, Parenting, Uncategorized · on Aug 29, 2016

  We just returned home from a weekend soccer tournament. Three games and no wins—one tie and two losses. The second game was a bad loss, one where none of us were quite sure what the final …

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Category: Breast Cancer, Parenting, UncategorizedTag: breast cancer, losing, soccer, youth sports

On Having a New Baby and Breast Cancer

by Julia Roller · In: Breast Cancer, Parenting · on Aug 4, 2016

I was explaining to someone a few months ago that I was in chemotherapy and she looked in confusion at my five-month-old in the stroller right next to us. “But you have a baby!”   I know, I …

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Category: Breast Cancer, ParentingTag: breast cancer, breastfeeding, chemotherapy, new baby

What I’ve Learned from My Cancer Diagnosis

by Julia Roller · In: Breast Cancer · on Mar 1, 2016

      I was 39 weeks pregnant when I was diagnosed with breast cancer last October.   I’m not sure what (or who) exactly caused me to ask my nurse-practitioner to do a breast …

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Category: Breast CancerTag: breast cancer, cancer diagnosis, gratitude, new mom, Romans 8:28

Have You Affirmed Your Family Today?

by Julia Roller · In: Parenting · on Aug 20, 2015

Last week at dinner my younger son casually turned to me and said, “These are the things I like about you, Mommy, that you play Legos with me, that you play puppies with me, that you hug me and that …

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Category: ParentingTag: affirmations, affirming children, Christian parenting, encouragement, parenting

Mom of Boys and. . .

by Julia Roller · In: Parenting · on Jul 30, 2015

I often tweet with the hashtag #momofboys. I’ve realized over the past (almost) nine years of being a mom of one and then two boys how much a part of my identity this has become. I think of myself as …

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Category: ParentingTag: baby girl, expecting, mom of boys, pregnancy

Three Ways to Listen Better to God

by Julia Roller · In: Silence · on Jul 11, 2015

My church recently held an all-night prayer vigil. Each of us could sign up for a half-hour (or longer) shift. I was lucky enough to get the very decent 9 a.m. shift and arrived in the little chapel …

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Category: SilenceTag: Dallas Willard, Henri Nouwen, listening, listening to children, prayer, silence, Thomas Keating

How to Help a Depressed New Mom

by Julia Roller · In: Parenting · on Apr 20, 2015

I’ll just come out with it: I’m an eavesdropper. I love to write and edit in coffee shops, partly because I can’t procrastinate by doing laundry and partly because I love to hear the snippets of …

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Category: ParentingTag: baby blues, depression, help, new mom, postpartum depression, service

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